11/14: How the College Football Playoff picture looks after the chaos of Week 11
The Audible with Stew, Bruce & Ralph: A show about college football
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🗓️ 14 November 2016
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Bruce and Stew recap the craziness and chaos of Week 11, including the upsets of Clemson, Michigan and Washington and how it all impacts the College Football Playoff picture. They take a look at the bizarre predicament Ohio State is in after Michigan’s loss to Iowa (7:00); Will Penn State get a playoff spot if they win the Big Ten Championship? (13:00); Where will Houston’s Tom Herman be coaching in 2017? (26:00); Should Oregon coach Mark Helfrich be worried about his job? (30:00); Under the radar storylines from this season (38:00); and more.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Audible. |
| 0:10.9 | I'm Stuart Mandel, joined by Bruce Feldman, and we had been talking for weeks on this podcast about when is the chaos going to come in college football. |
| 0:21.7 | And it finally did on Saturday, number number three and number four all lose in one day but Bruce do you find that |
| 0:29.6 | after all that not much has changed yes too I was going to ask you what was the biggest impact game |
| 0:37.2 | of that bunch of the whole weekend was there one ask you, what was the biggest impact game of that bunch, of the whole weekend? |
| 0:39.4 | Was there one to you? |
| 0:41.0 | I would say that the two that seemed to end up not affecting those teams were Clemson and Michigan losing, even though Michigan was clearly the – well, those two were bigger upsets, right? |
| 0:52.7 | This is what's so strange. |
| 0:54.4 | If you're using the Vegas lines, those two games were, I believe, both 20-something point |
| 0:59.2 | spreads. |
| 1:00.3 | So those were huge upsets. |
| 1:02.1 | And yet, I believe, and I think you'll agree, that Clemson, Michigan went out, |
| 1:06.9 | win their conferences. |
| 1:08.0 | They're going to the playoff. |
| 1:09.5 | The one that it seems to hurt the most is |
| 1:11.6 | Washington, even though that was against a ranked opponent that a lot of people think is obviously |
| 1:17.3 | a lot better than it was, then even its ranking reflected at the time. But I feel like it has |
| 1:23.5 | hurt Washington a little bit more because they were on the shakiest ground to begin with. |
| 1:27.2 | I would agree with that. I thought they had the least margin for error. Not only that, |
| 1:31.7 | they lost at home. I think that is going to be tougher to overcome. And I think the credibility |
| 1:38.9 | of the PAC 12 this year is in question. Whereas you look at the Big Ten, I mean, I have four teams in my top seven that are from the Big Ten. |
| 1:48.0 | I would think most people probably have four, at least in the top ten, |
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